Delma Jackson III is the founder of the Sankofa Project for Social Justice, LLC and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Whole Communities, a facilitator, writer, and lecturer on social justice topics.

He studied African-American Studies and Psychology at Eastern Michigan University and later obtained his Masters degree in Liberal Arts with a concentration in American & African-American Studies at the University of Michigan’s Rackham School of Graduate Studies.

He has conducted research on Afro-European identity in the Netherlands in both 1999 and again in 2014—studying slavery in the Netherlands, 21st century migration and immigration across Western Europe, and the impact of racialized pop-culture on Afro-Dutch identity.

He has lectured and/or facilitated workshops at New York University's, Tisch School for Performing Arts, Toledo University's Graduate School for Criminal Justice, the University of Michigan-Flint's School of Health and Professional Studies, the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education (NCORE), the United States Conference on AIDS, The Office of Sustainability at Dartmouth College. He also annually conducts workshops for Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and The National Convening of City Leads for the Nature Conservancy.